Rapid and simple cryopreservation of anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing bacteria.

abstract：:Genetic test systems involving microorganisms and liver enzyme preparations may be insufficient to detect compounds that require breakdown by enzymes provided by the microbial flora of the intestinal tract. A method is described for providing such activation and for simultaneously testing the potential genetic activit...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mayer VW,Goin CJ

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the catabolite repression control (Crc) protein repressed the formation of the blue pigment pyocyanin in response to a preferred carbon source (succinate) by interacting with phzM mRNA, which encodes a key enzyme in pyocyanin biosynthesis. Crc bound to an extended imperfect recognition seque...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Huang J,Sonnleitner E,Ren B,Xu Y,Haas D

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An assembly consisting of Styrofoam cups with membranes of varying porosities was developed to study microorganism-root interactions. The assembly permitted uniform distribution of a bacterium in soil and was simple, easy to use, and disposable. In tests with the bacterium Pseudomonas solanacearum, little difference i...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hartel PG,Billingsley JW,Williamson JW

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two gram-positive, strictly anoxic, coccoid- to rod-shaped strains of bacteria, Clostridium coccoides 1410 and C. coccoides 3110, were isolated from human feces on the typical homoacetogenic substrates formate plus H2 plus CO2 (strain 1410) and vanillate plus H2 plus CO2 (strain 3110) in the presence of 2-bromoethanes...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kamlage B,Gruhl B,Blaut M

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The filter exclusion method was used to isolate Frankia strains from Myrica pennsylvanica (bayberry) root nodules collected at diverse sites in New Jersey. A total of 16 isolates from five locations were cultured. The isolates were characterized by morphological, chemical, physiological, and plant infectivity criteria...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bloom RA,Lechevalier MP,Tate RL 3rd

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the isolation and characterization of a phototrophic ferrous iron [Fe(II)]-oxidizing bacterium named TIE-1 that differs from other Fe(II)-oxidizing phototrophs in that it is genetically tractable. Under anaerobic conditions, TIE-1 grows photoautotrophically with Fe(II), H2, or thiosulfate as the electron don...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jiao Y,Kappler A,Croal LR,Newman DK

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a chemiluminometric assay of beta-galactosidase in coliform bacteria, using a phenylgalactose-substituted 1,2-dioxetane derivative as a substrate. Permeabilization of cells is required to ensure the efficient cellular uptake of this compound. By this method, one coliform seeded in 100 ml of sterile water ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Van Poucke SO,Nelis HJ

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Essential oil components (EOCs) have limited water solubility and are used at much higher concentrations in complex food matrices than in growth media to inhibit pathogens. However, the correlation between solubility and activity has not been studied. The objective of this work was to characterize the solubility of EO...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chen H,Davidson PM,Zhong Q

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-acylhomoserine lactones (AHLs) are signaling molecules in many quorum-sensing (QS) systems that regulate interactions between various pathogenic bacteria and their hosts. Quorum quenching by the enzymatic inactivation of AHLs holds great promise in preventing and treating infections, and several such enzymes have be...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mei GY,Yan XX,Turak A,Luo ZQ,Zhang LQ

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The size frequency distribution of planktonic cells of purple sulfur phototrophic bacteria was measured at several depths in a bacterial layer of Lake Cisó (Spain). The bacterioplankton was dominated by Chromatium minus (87 to 94% of the total biomass). The largest cells of C. minus were found in the top part of the b...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Montesinos E

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten phenols were selected as natural laccase mediators after screening 44 different compounds with a recalcitrant dye (Reactive Black 5) as a substrate. Their performances were evaluated at different mediator/dye ratios and incubation times (up to 6 h) by the use of Pycnoporus cinnabarinus and Trametes villosa laccase...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Camarero S,Ibarra D,Martínez MJ,Martínez AT

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Values of Delta(34)S (=delta(34)S(HS)-delta(34)S(SO(4)), where delta(34)S(HS) and delta(34)S(SO(4)) indicate the differences in the isotopic compositions of the HS(-) and SO(4)(2-) in the eluent, respectively) for many modern marine sediments are in the range of -55 to -75 per thousand, much greater than the -2 to -46...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Davidson MM,Bisher ME,Pratt LM,Fong J,Southam G,Pfiffner SM,Reches Z,Onstott TC

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endotoxin exposure occurs in homes and occupational environments and is known to cause adverse health effects. In order to compare results from different studies and establish standards, airborne endotoxin exposures should be assessed using standardized methods. Although the European Committee for Standardization (CEN...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Spaan S,Heederik DJ,Thorne PS,Wouters IM

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that overexpression of the soxS or robA gene causes in several Escherichia coli strains the acquisition of higher organic solvent tolerance and also increased resistance to a number of antibiotics (H. Nakajima, K. Kobayashi, M. Kobayashi, H. Asako, and R. Aono, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 61:2302-...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Asako H,Nakajima H,Kobayashi K,Kobayashi M,Aono R

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During growth on xylan and xylose Thermoanaerobacterium saccharolyticum B6A-RI produced endoxylanase, beta-xylosidase, arabinofuranosidase, and acetyl esterase, and the first three activities appeared to be produced coordinately. During nonlimiting growth on xylan, these enzyme activities were predominantly cell assoc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lee YE,Lowe SE,Zeikus JG

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When 7-aminocephalosporanic acid (7-ACA) was used as a single carbon source in the enrichment culture medium for screening 7-ACA-degrading microorganisms, pink yeast colonies appeared frequently, and these were identified as Rhodotorula glutinis. These intact R. glutinis cells converted (i) 7-ACA to deacetyl-7-ACA (7-...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sakai Y,Abe T,Ohbayashi Y,Isaka K,Yamamoto K,Tani Y,Kato N

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With a medium containing citrate as the carbon and energy source, 10 clostridial strains were isolated from various mud samples. Characterization of these strains revealed that they all belonged to the same species, Clostridium sphenoides. Strains of this organism obtained from culture collections were also able to gr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Walther R,Hippe H,Gottschalk G

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The variable-region genes of monoclonal antibody against Bacillus cereus spores were cloned from mouse hybridoma cells by reverse transcription-PCR. The heavy- and light-chain variable-region genes were connected by a 45-base linker DNA to allow folding of the fusion protein into a functional tertiary structure. For d...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Koo K,Foegeding PM,Swaisgood HE

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) infection has been increasing; however, the sources of infection remain unclear. Therefore, we investigated the involvement of meat as a possible mediator of CA-MRSA infection. We examined the distribution of MRSA strains in comm...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ogata K,Narimatsu H,Suzuki M,Higuchi W,Yamamoto T,Taniguchi H

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen Bacillus thuringiensis strains representing 13 serotypes were screened with five oligodeoxyribonucleotide probes specific for certain regions of two published sequences and one unpublished sequence of B. thuringiensis delta-endotoxin genes. Of the 15 cultures, 14 hybridized with at least one probe; the B. thur...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Prefontaine G,Fast P,Lau PC,Hefford MA,Hanna Z,Brousseau R

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A toxic substance contained in the blue-green alga Microcystis aeruginosa was purified and partially characterized. Toxic algal cells were collected from a highly eutrophic lake in Japan, and the toxin was purified by homogenization, ultrafiltration, gel filtration, and ion-exchange chromatography. The final preparati...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Watanabe MF,Oishi S

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The form of a previously developed Bĕlehrádek type of growth rate model was used to develop a probability model for defining the growth/no growth interface as a function of temperature (10 to 37 degrees C), pH (pH 2.8 to 6.9), lactic acid concentration (0 to 500 mM), and water activity (0.955 to 0.999; NaCl was used a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Presser KA,Ross T,Ratkowsky DA

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a system to monitor the transfer of heterologous DNA from a genetically manipulated strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to Escherichia coli. This system is based on a yeast strain that carries multiple integrated copies of a pUC-derived plasmid. The bacterial sequences are maintained in the yeast genome by...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Adam AC,González-Blasco G,Rubio-Texeira M,Polaina J

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pollutant degradation is present mainly in the surface layer of biofilms, and the surface layer is the most vulnerable to impairment by toxic pollutants. In this work, the effects of nanosized TiO2 (n-TiO2) on the average thicknesses of Bacillus subtilis biofilm and on bacterial attachment on different surfaces were i...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zhang P,Guo JS,Yan P,Chen YP,Wang W,Dai YZ,Fang F,Wang GX,Shen Y

更新日期：2018-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Conditioned medium was obtained from suspension cultures of soybean (Glycine max L. Merrit) cells after incubating them for 4 to 8 days with rhizobia which were separated from the soybean cells by two dialysis bags, one within another. This conditioned medium from the plant cell side (PCM) of the two membranes was use...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bednarski MA,Reporter M

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two vomitoxin-producing isolates of Fusarium spp. were grown on cracked corn for 1 to 8 weeks at 15, 20, 25, 28, and 32 degrees C. Maximum production of vomitoxin by Fusarium graminearum Schw. NRRL 5883 occurred at 30 degrees C and 40 days, and that by Fusarium roseum Schw. NRRL 6101 occurred at 26 degrees C and 41 da...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Vesonder RF,Ellis JJ,Kwolek WF,DeMarini DJ

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of economic and product quality advantages exist in brewing when high-gravity worts of 16 to 18% dissolved solids are fermented. Above this level, production problems such as slow or stuck fermentations and poor yeast viability occur. Ethanol toxicity has been cited as the main cause, as brewers' yeasts are r...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Casey GP,Magnus CA,Ingledew WM

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusarium tricinctum Fn-2B was grown on a rice substrate at room temperature (22 to 26 degrees C) for 2 weeks followed by growth at a low temperature (10 to 12 degrees C) for an additional 2 weeks. A total of 1.5 g of nivalenol and 80 mg of fusarenone-X were obtained from 2 kg of rice culture. The methods of production...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lee YW,Mirocha CJ

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A protocol was developed to detect bacteria inhabiting microarthropods by means of small-subunit rRNA-targeted fluorescence in situ hybridization and microscopy. The protocol is based on cryosections of whole specimens. In contrast to more commonly applied paraffin-embedding techniques, the protocol is quicker and red...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Thimm T,Tebbe CC

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bioconversion of alpha-damascone (compound 1) was studied with four strains of Botrytis cinerea in grape must (pH 3.2). As biotransformation products of compound 1, 3-oxo-alpha-damascone, cis- and trans-3-hydroxy-alpha-damascone, gamma-damascenone, 3-oxo-8, 9-dihydro-alpha-damascone, and cis- and trans-3-hydroxy-8,9-d...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schoch E,Benda I,Schreier P

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00